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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

5 years

I returned back to vc after 9 years. I’ve learned a lot. Here’s what 2019 has taught me while at @NEA . 1/ Competition is fiercer than ever for ‘quality’ startups. Everything is pre-empted. I’m being more aggressive in what I have conviction in before others move.

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Jonathan Golden

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5 years

Sharing my reflections on personal growth @Airbnb . "Being patient with others, understanding your own emotions, and identifying what your colleagues might be going through is the key to surviving hypergrowth."

How I Survived Insane Hypergrowth at Airbnb

As I reflect on my time as Director of Product at Airbnb, I already feel a sense of nostalgia. I get another emotion, though, when I…

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

7 years

Thanks @bchesky , @nathanblec , and @jgebbia for the last 6 great years! Sharing “Lessons Learned Scaling Airbnb 100X”

Lessons Learned Scaling Airbnb 100X

On my first day at Airbnb, in early 2011, I walked in to see cofounder Joe Gebbia building my desk. I had spent three months slowly…

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Jonathan Golden

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6 years

Excited to share that I'm joining @NEA !

Returning to Venture Capital at NEA

I am excited to share that I’m joining NEA as a Partner! I couldn’t be happier after six years building product at Airbnb to get back to…

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Jonathan Golden

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7 years

Thoughts on marketplaces dynamics after my six years at Airbnb. "Marketplace businesses can be messy, and every gain is hard earned." Four Questions Every Marketplace Startup Should Be Able to Answer:

Four Questions Every Marketplace Startup Should Be Able to Answer

The six years I spent building products at Airbnb, scaling the marketplace over 100X, transformed how I understand the work of starting a…

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

5 years

5/ Good people are good to work with and unscrupulous people are not. Plan and simple. I’m focused on working with individuals I want to spend time with and I hope the entrepreneurs I meet are doing the same. Ultimately vc is a people business. This lesson is learned everyday.

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Jonathan Golden

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4 years

Just wrote "Don’t Let a Single Metric Drive Your Business" published by @HarvardBiz . Startups need a constellation of metrics: quantity, quality and efficient to prioritize tradeoffs and navigate in turbulent times.

Don’t Let a Single Metric Drive Your Business

It’s impossible to capture the complexities of your business with a single metric. Prioritize a single headline number — to the exclusion of all others — and you’ll invariably leave a lot of people...

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

5 years

I’m finding that revenue is a lagging indicator for many early stage startups. I’m much more interested in the unit economics working, or a path towards working, before trying to rapidly scale revenue.

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

5 years

2/ Consumer opportunities are more challenged due to increasing CAC from the Facebook + Google duopoly. Even startups that worked a few years ago have slowing growth due to increasing acquisition spend. I’m looking for multiple growth channels –the mix will constantly change.

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

3 years

I worked side by side with @brian_armstrong at @Airbnb before @coinbase . I asked him how I could buy #BTC . He said it was hard but that he was working on solving it... so instead I angel invested in @coinbase which was ironically easier at the time 😂. Thx Brian and congrats! 🚀

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Jonathan Golden

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5 years

4/ Everyone is anticipating a slowdown but no one is acting that way. I’m staying focused on enduring businesses that will compound over time. Capital efficient businesses are a surefire way to continue when capital is scarcer. No one can predict the marco markets.

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Jonathan Golden

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5 years

Boom. @NEA announced our new $3.6b fund. Investing in founders who are creating vital change in the world for over 40+ years in both up and down economic cycles!

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

4 years

When I joined @Airbnb in 2011, I thought, if this works it could be huge (like a billion dollar co). I never thought it could be worth +100 billion but I shouldn't be surprised. Such an amazing team who is dedicating themselves to bringing people together in the world.

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Jonathan Golden

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6 years

Super excited about the @Airbnb alum founding amazing startups!

How Hiring Entrepreneurs Enabled Airbnb’s Success (and Launched a New Generation of Founders)

When I left Airbnb last year, I was delighted to join a group as dynamic as the company itself: the Airbnb alumni. And I’ve been intrigued…

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

5 years

3/ Application layer software in on fire. With @zoom_us 's successful IPO, it feels like SaaS multiples have doubled since the beginning of 2019. I’m leaning forward when the business gets stronger at scale (ex: potential to become a platform), not otherwise.

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Jonathan Golden

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6 years

There are a ton of Airbnb alum startups that are just getting going. @coinbase and @mesosphere are two unicorns that have already emerged from @Airbnb . @andrewchen I’ll argue that there will be more from Airbnb than Uber in the next few years.

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Jonathan Golden

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4 years

@kevinleeme @Airbnb I detailed some of the hiring practices at @Airbnb in “How Hiring Entrepreneurs Enabled Airbnb’s Success”:

How Hiring Entrepreneurs Enabled Airbnb’s Success (and Launched a New Generation of Founders)

When I left Airbnb last year, I was delighted to join a group as dynamic as the company itself: the Airbnb alumni. And I’ve been intrigued…

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

With my experience as the first PM @Airbnb , founders often ask me what to look for in their first PM hire. My reply is always hire builders not maintainers.

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

Just published a piece in @TechCrunch on behavior changing products. "A behavior shift allows the innovator to shape the future by creating a new product experience and pricing structure." Looking forward to what's to come!

Changing consumer behavior is the key to unlocking billion-dollar businesses | TechCrunch

Revolutionary products succeed when they deliver value to their users. The fact that a product creates a behavior shift is not enough. It must create value to overcome the initial skepticism.

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Jonathan Golden

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4 years

" @Patreon 's creators want to express themselves while earning a living. The platform gives control to the creator, allowing them to know and manage their fanbase in a scalable way." @NEA is co-leading the 90M fundraise. More here 👇

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

As a partner at @NEA , I’m looking for #marketplaces that create behavior-changing experiences.

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

It’s way better for a marketplace to be supply constrained than demand constrained. Lack of demand is the main cause of any business failure either as a startup or any business for that matter.

Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

As a partner at @NEA , I’m looking for #marketplaces that create behavior-changing experiences.

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

Attended an @atrium scale event hosted by @justinkan over the holiday weekend. Super impressed with the caliber of the startups in the Atrium ecosystem!

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

Always useful to see old decks of startups. Makes you realize how raw some of the most successful businesses were in the early days:

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Jonathan Golden

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6 years

I get told all the time that 'ideas are a dime a dozen its all about the execution'. My take is that it is all about execution but a really good idea is hard to identify. You need both a solid team and a great idea (as well as market timing) to get something explosive.

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

Don't get bamboozled by titles at large tech companies. Building anything is much harder than being handed a large part of the product where you just keep it running.

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

5 years

"Each stage of the company required an up-leveling of my emotional, communication, and leadership abilities — and those are the tools that I will carry forward." Its a life-long endeavor for me to continually improve!

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

5 years

Huge success story for @williamhockey and @zachperret from @Plaid and for @rickyang from @NEA who has been quietly partnering for several years since the seed and leading the series A!

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5 years

🎉 Congratulations, @Plaid @williamhockey @zachperret —the #fintech 🤑 company that has made money easier is to be acquired by @Visa ! @NEA 's @rickyang , an early investor and BOD member, details The Hard Work Behind Making Money Easy:

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Jonathan Golden

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5 years

Gave a little talk at the Marketplace Conference on 'Scaling Airbnb 100x'. 👇

Scaling Airbnb 100x - Jonathan Golden, NEA

The annual Marketplace Conference on March 27th, 2019 in San Francisco united marketplace founders, VCs, and subject matter experts to discuss the present an...

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

4 years

I'm bullish on @Airbnb ! I think it's a thing now.

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

Just published How to Make Your First Product Hire. "My advice is to find a builder, not a maintainer. Look for a PM who has actually built a new product, not someone who was handed a well-established product to manage."

When and How to Make Your First Product Hire

I get one question from founders all the time: When is it time to make my first product hire?

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

3 years

Could not be more excited about the future of @Patreon ! With @jackconte 's leadership they are the heart of the creator economy.

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

4 months

@andykonwinski I call it storytelling. You need to bring everyone along and developing a compelling narrative is the most important skillset I look for in founders.

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

1 year

Our interview with @GrantLaFontaine from @Whatnot on how to build a next gen marketplace with individual curators! "When you layer that star [curator] dynamic with that ability to move product, it’s a force multiplier."

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🔦 Marketplace Building Spotlight: Whatnot’s Grant LaFontaine @NEA ’s @jpgg & @Whatnot ’s @GrantLaFontaine discuss explosive growth, product evolution, and tales from the trenches: #marketplaces #founders

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Jonathan Golden

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6 years

Two side by side stories in @TechCrunch about David (my brother) raising 90M for @BoweryFarming and my thoughts on behavior changing products. Love the timing of it!

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

The @nytimes and @eringriffith highlighting the amazing entrepreneurial network that is coming out of @Airbnb ! Pumped to work in venture ecosystem with Airbnb colleagues like @gustaf and @saratillim .

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

1 year

I continue to be wildly excited about marketplace startups at @NEA ! Great insights from my partner @annbordetsky . More in NEA's Marketplace Building Playbook 👉

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

7 years

I just published a Medium post detailing the evaluation framework I used to join @Airbnb over six years ago. Hope its useful!

An Evaluation Framework for Choosing the Right Startup

I was crouched between two cars next to the Marina Green in San Francisco. The wind of the Bay was blowing so hard I could barely hear Joe…

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

11 months

Best career risk I ever took! Post Series A is a sweet spot for joining a rapidly scaling company. Also @Airbnb was/is a special place!

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@lennysan

11 months

Data on when 30+ startups hired their first product manager Including who they hired, how many employees, and engineers, they had at the time, and the backgrounds of the first PMs and founders:

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

Original tweets back in early 2007. I was still trying to figure out what twitter would be used for. Finally stepping back into the community after an 11 year hiatus!

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

5 years

Hypothesis - if we appropriately tax carbon emissions, we’d see a re-emergence of onshoring, bringing jobs back to domestic markets and having food sourced more locally. Odd how a strong climate policy might correct both environmental and economic dislocations at the same time...

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

5 years

Business model innovation is the most disruptive type. An incumbent must change every aspect of their business including product and sales to effectively respond to the threat. Libra is Facebook’s recent attempt to own a new paradigm. It will be fascinating to see how it unfolds!

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

5 years

I think @lennysan ’s superpower right now is disseminating stellar advice on product management!

Lenny Rachitsky

@lennysan

5 years

This a a topic I’ve been wanting to write about since my very first post. Being good at performance reviews is a secret weapon of great managers. I was super fortunate to get to work with the First Round Review team in this, who helped make this look 🙌. Hope you enjoy it.

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

11 months

It's been less than a year since ChatGPT erupted onto the scene, revealing a powerful new era in AI. The New Consumer Internet will be Collaborative ( @midjourney , @canofsoup_inc ), Curated ( @perplexity_ai ) and Creative ( @RewindAI )! 👉

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

Pumped for the @Airbnb for Work team. They already account for 15% of Airbnb stays. The business travel market size is 300bn. Go get'em!

Airbnb for Work now accounts for 15 percent of bookings | TechCrunch

Business travelers have become an increasingly important part of Airbnb's business, according to a new blog post. The company says that Airbnb for Work,

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

4 years

. @brian_armstrong , @coinbase founder & ceo, previously worked @Airbnb . Alumni group is just getting going 🔥

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

Great depth of thought on marketplaces from ⁦ @davelu ⁩ “Not All Marketplaces are Created Equal: Tales of a Marketplace Founder” by @davelu

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

As a guest on TechCrunch's Equity Podcast this week, @Cookie , @KateClarkTweets , @alex and I discussed female-founded companies and increasing diversity within the venture industry. 👇

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6 years

Four rounds for women-led startups, and a huge Series A for Motif by @alex

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

@bchesky @nathanblec @jgebbia set a culture of entrepreneurship and that was a hiring criteria for a while. It was nicknamed being a ‘cereal entrepreneur’, a homage to them making Obama O’s cereal to fund @Airbnb in the early days. We’ll see more Airbnb entrepreneurs emerge soon.

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

2 years

I have been waiting for @LedgeFinance 's product to exist since the early days of @Airbnb ! @T_Kirschen and team could not be a better team to build "the" payments reconciliation platform:

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

10 months

Novel ‘system of intelligence’ products that leverage generative AI will become the next wave of software disrupters at the app layer. Defined by 1. deep workflow integration, 2. data hierarchy sophistication and 3. data feedback loops. @TechCrunch 👉

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

1 year

Love the curated experiences that @livekindred is bring to the world. Excited that @veelarco and @NEA are partnering with them!

Kindred

@livekindred

1 year

We're thrilled to announce the support of @NEA & continued support of @a16z , @tonsing , and @BessemerVP in our mission to help people live a lifestyle that's richer in travel, experiences, and human connection. Thanks @bayareawriter for the coverage!

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

“If people would just sit down and eat together, and understand something about each other, maybe they could figure things out.”

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

4 years

So excited for @NEA to partner with @Patreon and @jackconte to build the platform for the creative economy! via @WSJ

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

Yale endowment is over-weight VC and dramatically under-weight domestic equity. Super interesting to peer behind one of the best allocator of assets in the world.

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

3 years

@MoonPayHQ Pumped to be part of the journey with @isotowright and the rest of the @MoonPayHQ team! MoonPay is 'the' on-ramp to access crypto in the new Web3 paradigm. Exciting times ahead!

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

4 years

Talking to over 3k people on video is a little easier than in person #productcon 😉

Product School

@productschool

4 years

Amazing talk by @jpgg 🔥 at #ProductCon

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

I remember seeing the Twitter's Series B pitch deck in early 2008. The entire deck was a series of tweets, amazing to see the focus on product back then which translated into an amazing narrative for fundraising. Only 140 characters on each slide.

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

5 years

"There is an inherent trade-off between inclusion and efficiency as a startup scales" - @rousseaukazi . Rousseau is trying to flip the equation. @threads is focused on scaling communication so that all participants are included in decisions!

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

There are over 300,000 privately owned aircraft in the U.S., but these planes are utilized a meager 1.2% of the time. There are more than 220,000 commercially certified pilots in the U.S., and want to fly more to earn income—it’s also their passion.

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

Amazing write up of @lennysan ’s time @Airbnb . Seven years is quite a journey!

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@lennysan

6 years

I wrote something about my time at Airbnb

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@jpgg

6 years

Heard on the South Park lawn in SF this am “Venture is the highest ego to AUM (assets under management) ratio in the finance industry”. @itaitsi Too funny :)

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

5 years

Loved hearing @daynagrayson on @twentyminutevc this morning with @HarryStebbings . Some serious knowledge dropped on how entrepreneurial expectations of venture has changed and why we place to much emphasis on "signalling". Great episode!

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

1 year

Excited to share the @NEA Founder Forward podcast I recorded with @jackconte on @Patreon and the boarder creator economy with @itsdankang here: .

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

Anecdotal evidence that my friends have stopped using facebook... no one posts happy birthday in my feed anymore 🤨

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

Love the quote by @Zat_Rana "You have to be lucky to be successful, but luck can be engineered." Its not just hard work but hard work in the right direction to set yourself up for serendipitous opportunities.

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

Extremely relevant in venture capital and just life in general. "Every time you have a conversation, you are building a personal brand" by @JoelCPeterson

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

"The fact that people have left the company to implement their own big ideas isn’t a bug. It’s a feature, a direct result of the entrepreneurial culture that’s helped Airbnb thrive and have an outsize influence on the industry" Current alum include @coinbase and @mesosphere !

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

4 years

. @michelletandler is writing the most thoughtful commentary on SF issues right now. Worth paying attention to. 👇

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@michelletandler

4 years

"Crime in SF is down 20%" ?? This is very misleading. Homicides are up 42%. Shootings up 32%. Majority of the "crime drop" is driven by the decrease in tourist car burglaries. Did anyone at @FastCompany check the (publicly available) data? cc @kristindakota 🧵👇 (1/x)

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

@ataussig Its also important to understand the tax consequences of joining a startup. No MBA program I know of teaches you the complexity of QSBS, 83B elections, AMT or 409A valuations.

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

I’m speaking at the Marketplace Conference too! See you there on 3/27.

Brian Rothenberg

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6 years

I’m speaking at The Marketplace Conference 3/27 in San Francisco. The conference is for marketplace founders, executives, and VCs/investors. Discount code "autotechfriend" gets 10% off. See you there:

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

Excited to be an angel investor in @MerlinJobs1 with @guimarvs leading the charge! Just raised $24M! In great company with @stephpalmeri with @uncorkcap , @slazar with @gcvp and @FirstMarkCap .

Merlin Launches In New York City Metro Area to Help Hourly Workers Find The Best Job Opportunities

/PRNewswire/ -- Merlin, a jobs platform exclusively for hourly workers, launched today in the New York City metro area, bringing the same focus traditionally...

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

5 years

Just dug this up: My chat with @Nasdaq from the Marketplace Conference last month. My key take-aways on managed marketplaces, demand versus supply and what sectors can be transformed through marketplaces!

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

@andrewchen @a16z @jeff_jordan @jbreinlinger @onecaseman @bmrothenberg @elichait @ai There are a ton of new marketplace enabling technologies that didn’t exist a few years ago like @stripe Connect (payments), @lob (address verification) and @checkr (background checks) allowing more trust and a ‘fuller-stack’ experience.

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

4 years

Beyond thrilled to have @annbordetsky join the @NEA team!

Ann Bordetsky

@annbordetsky

4 years

10/ Builders welcome! Find me here (DMs open 📥) and see u in Clubhouse 👋

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

I fear that to live and work in SF, salaries are going to be move up tremendously while equity compensation will become less important resulting in more tech workers seeking stability rather than joining the next rocket ship.

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@itaitsi

6 years

“According to CBRE, a real-estate firm, it costs $62.4m a year to run a 500-person startup with 7,000 square metres of office in San Francisco”. Lulz. We pay ~$0.5m for 150 employees in Jerusalem. Basically rent free.

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

@tomloverro I like the Xennial definition for myself, ‘an anologue childhood but a digital adulthood’.

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

2 years

Excited to partner with the @Courtyard_NFT team, @lejeunedall and @niluaq , to bring physical collectibles to the blockchain! More about our investment here:

Courtyard: Creating a World of Connected Collectibles

Courtyard redefines collectibles ownership through NFTsAt NEA, we have been long-time believers in backing platforms tha...

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Courtyard.io

@Courtyard_io

2 years

We've raised $7M led by @NEA with participation from @ycombinator , @opensea , @garyvee , @brinks , @CherryVentures , and a select group of angel investors. We’re excited to shape the future of IRL collecting and trading on the blockchain 🚀 (1/2)

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

5 months

Amazing team and amazing vision 🚀

Aravind Srinivas

@AravSrinivas

5 months

Excited to announce we've raised 62.7M$ at 1.04B$ valuation, led by Daniel Gross, along with Stan Druckenmiller, NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos, Tobi Lutke, Garry Tan, Andrej Karpathy, Dylan Field, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, IVP, NEA, Jakob Uszkoreit, Naval Ravikant, Brad Gerstner, and Lip-Bu

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Jonathan Golden

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6 years

Interesting to see that ‘product market fit’ (actually sustainable) has finally hit the same visibility in the startup ecosystem as ‘growth hacking’ in the US.

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

Super interesting fact that @steveselzer uncovered exploring Airbnb for Work is that business travelers are commonly lonely and want a unique experience to make travel more human.

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6 years

“Airbnb for Work is more than just business travel.” It’s team-building, offsites, relocation, and more. It’s designed to help companies attract and retain talent. It’s a professional community. Excited and proud to see this coming to life. #A4W @Airbnb

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

4 years

. @ToastTab seems to be crushing curbside restaurant pickup. Just downloaded the app and its great. It's a stealth consumer play. This was the original @square Wallet app idea which was discounted in 2014.

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

Great analysis of consumer unicorns over the last few years and the fall-off after 2013.

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@efeng

6 years

Some personal musings on the state of consumer startups: . Will we see a next wave of iconic consumer companies emerge?

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

2 years

Thrilled to lead @Ledgy 's Series B and partner with them to democratize equity globally! 👉

Growing Equity in Europe: Our Series B Investment in Ledgy

NEA invests in Ledgy, leading equity management platform in EuropeIn recent years, the European venture ecosystem has ma...

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

7 years

Go Coinbase!

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

5 years

Another great post by @lennysan

Lenny Rachitsky

@lennysan

5 years

I just published a new post synthesizing everything I’ve learned about getting into product management ✨ Seven years ago I moved from engineering to PM and this is what I wish I had known back then 🤗

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Jonathan Golden

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5 years

@lennysan @soopa @combinevc @gustaf @fatimahusain898 @saratillim All the @Airbnb alum investors had dinner together last week. Great group from pre-seed to seed to venture to growth to even SoftBank :)

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@jpgg

5 years

@AmitMukherjee I’m clearly biased but @Airbnb as the founders hired based on being a ‘cereal’ entrepreneur. You’ve already seen mega successful alums like @coinbase and @D2iQ . More to come.

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

3 years

Bonfire is building a true consumer experience for web3 creators and fans. Could not be more excited 👇

Bonfire

@bonfire_tweets

3 years

gm. Web3 introduced digital ownership to the internet, opening the floodgates for creators to capture the value they create. Today, we’re excited to unveil Bonfire, a platform that unlocks the power of ownership for online communities.

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

4 years

Could not be more excited to see what the future holds for @Patreon ! It is the platform for online creatives to engage with their fans in a meaningful way while earning a living.

Jack Conte

@jackconte

4 years

Three things: 1) Creators have earned over $2B on Patreon to date from over 6M patrons! 2) Creators are about to be earning $1B per year on Patreon (!!!!). 3) We just raised $90M! Coming up: international, patron experience, discovery More info:

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

5 years

Congrats @alyraz !

Alyssa Ravasio

@alyraz

5 years

Excited for this new partnership with @andrewchen , and grateful to our amazing community of Hosts and Hipcampers for making this possible. Let's get more people outside!! ⛺️✌🏽🌲

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

A little late but congrats @HodgesSam ! Excited I was along for the ride. Safe travels back from the UK.

Sam Hodges

@HodgesSam

6 years

It’s official. Great milestone for @fundingcircle . Honored to have had a chance to take part in the listing celebration! Thanks to everyone who made this happen.

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

5 years

So excited for @rickyang !

NEA

@NEA

5 years

🎉 Congratulations to @NEA 's @rickyang —promoted to General Partner & Head of Consumer Investing. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

Don’t know how I missed this the other week but amazing career advice. “It’s important to move towards a career that has a compounding effect—most careers progress fairly linearly.” How To Be Successful - Sam Altman ⁦⁦ @sama ⁩

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

5 years

@jheltzer @hunterwalk The first venture capitalist, very few know that name. “Creative Capital” is an great read on vc origins.

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

Excited to see @coinbase building a product for everyone to use to access decentralized apps with @CoinbaseWallet !

Emre Tekisalp

@etekis

6 years

Toshi is now a part of the @coinbase product family, check out @CoinbaseWallet and ! We're so excited not just bc of a new name, but bc of the amazing team we're forming led by @Sid_Coelho and @petejkim and the many exciting features we have on our roadmap!

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

@bmrothenberg Metrics show if a product is successful or not. The key is to set those metrics up beforehand versus deciding which metrics to track afterwards and then pretending the launch was successful.

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

6 years

Can’t wait to see dedicated micro-mobility lanes in every major city so that we can actually get around! Electric Scooters in New York City? They Just Might Work via ⁦ @nytimes ⁩

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

8 months

@AbhayVenkatesh1 Have the humility to understand the randomness of both good and bad fortune but the also have the doggedness to keep at it to expose yourself to even more positive serendipitous events.

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Jonathan Golden

@jpgg

1 year

@annbordetsky @NEA @veelarco @JessicaOu So much building. What is most impressive with YC companies is the focus on real problems and use cases that leads to traction early!

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